I am trying to set up Rails on a Ubuntu instance by following along with documentation such as https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails. I am trying to set up the app from the Rails Getting Started page here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html.
What I have done so far:
- Installation of Ruby/RubyGems/Rails through RVM and GEM (this installed Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0.7)
- Installation of the mysql and mysql2 module (latter which didn't work)
- Creation of rails app (blog app as tutorial is instructing)
- Sym linking of /home/me/www/blog/public/ from /var/www/blog/
- Creation of DB through rake
- Installation of passenger module for Rails execution in Apache
- Running of
passenger-install-apache2-module
to configure Apache
- Deletion of public.html file from public/ rails app folder so that my controller/view can fire
- Configuration of sites-available files for virtual hosts
- Configuration of Rails routing
I believe it is the last two steps that are tripping me up, partly due to lack of familiarity with Apache and Rails (I am new to both).
In my virtual host file I am trying to point to the blog public dir in /var/www/blog. For my Rails route I have root :to => "home#index"
as instructed.
When I browse to the http:// url I should normally be seeing my "Hello, Rails!" page per section 4.3 of the Getting Started guide, however all I see is the directory listing from Apache. Static pages work but not Rails processing.
At this point I am unclear if the passenger module is even doing anything or where to look for any evidence of what is happening. I tried various things like running the Rails app off a different virtual host called "blog" at http:///blog and the routing worked (static pages and all) but no Rails as above.
Update: after playing around some more, I now get a new error message (404):
Not Found
The requested URL /dispatch.cgi was
not found on this server.
I have since determined that this cgi 404 was caused by a rewrite rule I had added to .htaccess from guidance from the help.ubuntu.com page I pointed out above. Looks like it wasn't necessary or applied to an older version of Rails. The inconsistencies in instructions when looking up help online is disorienting! Removing the file leaves me with the previous problem though.
Here's the entry in the Apache log that I believe correlates with the first error. Although I am no longer getting this error it seems, may be related to something else I was trying before...
[Fri May 27 22:49:41 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.3-1ubuntu9 with Suhosin-Patch Phusion_Passenger/3.0.7 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri May 27 22:51:18 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.141] File does not exist: /var/www/blog/rails, referer: http://192.168.1.138/blog/
Here's the most recent entry with the 404 on the cgi thing:
[Sat May 28 08:01:18 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.141] File does not exist: /var/www/blog/dispatch.cgi
What could I be missing? Thanks!
Additional details as requested. Apache sites file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/blog/
RailsEnv development
# <Directory />
# Options FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride None
# </Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/blog/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks -MultiViews +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Another update: I was able to get it working, finally, by using a top level DocumentRoot (/var/www) and basing my Rails app off that using RailsBaseURI. This maps to the "Deploying to a sub URI" section of the Phusion Passenger instructions. It is used as http:///blog which is not really what I wanted to get, but it's kind of irrelevant as I am using this just to learn Rails in a virtual. I will need to go and work on getting it working as a top level app again sometime later. Here's my current (final) VirtualHost file for reference:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/
RailsEnv development
<Directory /var/www/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
RailsBaseURI /blog
<Directory /var/www/blog/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks -MultiViews +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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